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Paula Rego: The Forgotten Exhibition 19 November 2021–22 January 2022
Victoria Miro, 16 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW
Victoria Miro is delighted to announce The Forgotten, a major exhibition by Paula Rego.
To be held across the entirety of its Wharf Road spaces, the gallery’s first solo exhibition
by the artist brings together significant individual works and important series, many
rarely shown, drawn principally from the past 20 years.
Celebrated as a peerless storyteller, Paula Rego has often brought immense psychological insight and
imaginative power to the stories that we try to suppress or tell ourselves only in private. Testament to a
career spent exploring these hidden narratives and their associated stigmas, The Forgotten encircles themes
and subjects that are often masked or concealed – out of politeness or embarrassment – such as mental
illness and old age. It includes works inspired by episodes from the artist’s childhood in Portugal, including